Search Results: Counties from Maggie Lambeth

Nacogdoches: Nacogdoches Jaycees, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 297pp., index, photographs, maps, contributions by various authors. DJ in mylar cover.

Denison, Tx: Grayson Bank, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. SIGNED with author's presentation on title page, 192pp., index, bibliography, photo credits. More than 270 photographs many never before or only rarely published.

Burnet: Nortex, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE . 612pp., General Land Office Map, notes,11 appendixes, beginning with 1860 census, notes, towns, townsites, communities, early explorers beginning with Teran in 1861, brown leatherette, gilt titles, lacking dj, clean, tight, no names, no writing. Still considered the best source for the earliest period of Blanco history. Includes important information on wells, springs, topography, geology, ranching,Civil War military, agriculture as well as 19th century events of interest.

San Antonio: Standard, 1934. First Edition. Softcover. FINE. 97pp, + list of immigrants coming from Havre, France via Galveston, 1842, 4 photographs on 3 platesbib., brown printed gray wraps, no names, no writing. Includes "Adventures of a Castrovillian" by Auguste Fretelliere, Republic of Texas, 1843-1844.

Lubbock: Scurry County Book Committee, 1984. First Edition. VERY GOOD. Photographic endpapers, photographs, index, 580pp., limited edition number 460, 4to cloth backed boards, gilt titles, color pictorial cover. Edge of boards minor rub, previous owner's name otherwise fine bright clean copy. Includes town of Snyder, list of brands and their owners, Pyron Cemetery, schools, churches, Santa Fe RR, family histories, buffalo hunters, early cattlemen, etc.

Dallas: Forney Historic Preservation League, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. FINE/fine. Map and photo endpapers,318pp., index, 100s of sepia photographs and illustrations, 4to maroon cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt titles to upper board Published in commemoration of the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Forney and the 150th anniversary of the formation of Kaufman County. Includes the Muster Roll of Mustang Rangers No. 1 Organized 8 July 1861.

Orange, Tx.: Heritage House Museum of Orange, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD.. Limited edition printed by David Holman at Wind River Press in an edition of 1,000 copies, Austin, Texas, 261pp., index, bibliography, appendix, historic photographs, maps, illust. Oblong 4to, white cloth backed green photographic boards, green paper spine label has tiny chip and rubbing. Beautiful production with several hundred historic photographs. Paper is beginning to deteriorate along the edges with tiny holes and some minor rubbing exposing the boards and the white cloth spine is soiled. This scarce history is clean, tight and rhw contents are fine. Wear to the boards noted. Rare to find this county history. Its contents include early Natime Americans, Spain and France, "The Runaway Scrape," Social Violence, Slavery, Slave Trade, Developing Black Culture, Civil War. Oil Boom, and Ship Building among other interesting topics by one of the county's most well respected historians.

Crosbyton, Tx: Published by Crosby County Historical Commission., 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Typescript format. Includes a list of obits on file with the county.

San Antonio, TX: Denton County Historical Museum, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 112pp., index, 4to black cloth, gilt spine titles, color pictorial dj in archival mylar cover. Addiional Denton County material laid-in includes the Sesquicentennial envelope and stamp, 1996

Sherman, Texas: Scruggs Printing Co., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Frontis. port., two page hand drawn map illus. plates on coated stock, 210pp. + biblio. Rebound in handsome new wine cloth with gilt titles on brown leather spine label, new classic laid endpapers. No names, no writing. CBC 2025. Scarce history of Sherman, Clarksville, Fort Wachita; colonists from Missouri and Arkansas came down the military road from Fort Smith, crossing Red River at Coffee's Bend on their way to the Cross Timbers. Includes founding of Austin College the war between the states, and the nearby Indian Nation.

Canton, Texas: Irby Mills, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. 237pp. plus table of contents. illustrated, county map, list of county officers. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles, paper age-toned. Bordered by two rivers the Sabine and Neches. Scarce in this early hardcover edition.

Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/good. 179pp., 19 illustrations and maps, index, bibliography. DJ with pieces missing, in mylar cover. CBC 3841,

Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Tan endpapers, map frtspc., bibliography, chapter notes. Blue cloth, gilt titles rubbed, no dj. Scarce.

San Marcos, Tx: San Marcos Record Press, 1954. First Edition. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Illustrations by the author, maps, 74pp., biblio, printed pictorial wraps tanned, small chip in spine, contents clean and tight. Ten years later he published Bosque Territory. CBC 539. Rare

Dallas, Texas: Curtis Media, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Compiled and edited by the History Book Committee. 900pp., index, 100s of photographs, 4to black cloth with color photograph of the courthouse fixed to upper board, gilt titles, map endpapers, previous owners label, tiny nick to upper edge of rear board, all else fine.

Hill County Historical Commission, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. 518pp.,many historic photos. DJ with wrinkling and short edge tears in mylar cover. Sections on communities, churches, biographies, archeology, etc.

San Antonio : St. Mary's University, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 216pp., photos. No names. White clith, with green titles and pictorial. Clean and bright but cloth is lightly rippling along exterior edges of upper board.

Hillsboro, TX: Hill College Press, 1986. First Edition. FINE/fine. SIGNED by the author on half-title page. Sesquicentennial Edition 1836-1986, xi,121pp. Illus., portraits, map, facsimiles. 4to camel cloth, dj with map on lower panel in archival mylar cover. One of 1000 copies. Three essays on Hill County, Texas, dealing with its part in the Mexican War, the 1860 census, and the Confederate reunion grounds.

The Mason County Sesquicentennial Committee., 1986 . First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Contributions from many people, 190pp., many photos. maps of Mason, Streeter and Wagram. 4to blue leatherette, silver and white titles. Minor surface impression, all else fine. Includes historical background, early settlers, family genealogy, history of many early houses and information not previously submitted on all of these communities- Art, Bauer, Brockmann, Fredonia, Fly Gap, Grossville, Hedwig's Hill, Hilda, Long Mt., Lower Willow Creek, Loyal Valley, Mason, Pontotoc, Ranch Branch, Streeter, and Wagram.

Chicago: Lewis, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 734pp. new endpapers, original 4to leather boards rebacked with new leather spine, gilt titles four raised spine bands and three gilt floral devices, new endsheets, reinforced hinges. "The Lone Star State" gilt embossed on upper board, , 4to (over-size). Lacks title page, the original contents pages iii & iv have been fixed to blank sheet bound-in, lacking contents pages 5-6, 7-8, pg. 9-10 also fixed to blank sheet bound-in. Remainder of text clean, tight and complete with a few tape repairs to page edge. Original full page portraits, corner missing pg. 105. Biographical sketches pg. 335 thru pg. 735. Except for the 3 missing pages this is a very good copy in the original leather boards with the addition of a new spine that increases the books longevity and makes it sturdy for use. Johnson County was in the original Robertson Colony and was created out of Navarro and McLennan Counties in 1854. Hill County was created out of Navarro County in… Read More